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Texas Department of Motor Vehicles paid an average compensation of $58,355 during 2021, this was more than the public employee average of $55,188, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest-paid public employee in Texas was Beau Michelle Le, who earned $608,850 as the chief scientific officer at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

The national median hourly wage is $19.14 according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the OECD, the average yearly wage in the US is more than $60,000.

When calculating average compensation, only employees categorized as full-time were included.

Rank	Employee	Amount Earned
1	Shelly Mellott	$185,662
2	Daniel Avitia Jr.	$167,460
3	James Archer	$150,431
4	Glenna Bowman	$150,000
5	Wendy Barron	$145,008
6	Corrie Thompson	$144,414
7	Roland Luna	$144,372
8	Keith Yawn	$133,008
9	Aline Aucoin	$131,893
10	Monique Johnston	$131,460
11	Amanda Collins	$129,000
12	Leah Leone	$126,024
13	Edward Sandoval	$125,005
14	Matthew Levitt	$125,000
15	Duwayne Murdock Jr.	$123,374
16	Bryan Wilson	$120,159
17	William Hilton	$120,000
18	Brian Ge	$115,520
19	Joseph Grace	$115,008
19	Jacqueline Jarvis	$115,008
21	Stuart Thompson	$112,000
22	Deborah Hujar	$110,977
23	Elizabeth Pierce	$110,000
23	John Ralston	$110,000
23	Eric Horn	$110,000
23	Bradley Payne	$110,000
27	Michael Tyler	$109,200
27	Uma Reddy	$109,200
29	Clarence Richards	$108,827
30	Matthew Miller	$104,801
31	Christopher Kanute	$103,408
32	Robert Blech	$102,000
33	Katharine Drummond	$101,500
34	Jason Gonzalez	$100,000
35	Andrew Kang	$99,778
36	Heather Pierce	$99,000
37	Richard Goldsmith	$98,772
38	Terry Cowart	$96,720
39	Adam Shaivitz	$96,539
40	Carolyn Fallin	$96,303
41	William Diggs	$96,224
42	Erin Dinsmore	$96,178
43	Jeffrey Armstrong	$96,000
43	Hope Parrish	$96,000
45	James Bronson	$94,800
46	Sean Knox	$94,128
47	Christopher Sturm	$94,008
48	Robin Lingo	$93,721
49	Madhuri Parvathreddy	$93,600
50	Analisa Resendez	$93,408
50	Patricia Ueckert	$93,408
50	Stefan Krisch	$93,408
53	Patrick Coats	$91,440
54	Drake Kirk	$91,307
55	Ellen Webking	$91,000
56	Jesse Kirk	$90,000
57	Brian Kline	$89,670
58	Biswajit Das	$89,467
59	Angela Masloff	$88,140
60	Alan Sharf	$87,291
61	Damien Shores	$87,216
62	Paschal Anyaibe	$87,000
63	Hettie Meisel	$86,640
64	Robert Rice	$86,369
65	Kevin B. Lowrie	$86,100
66	Melissa Bennett	$85,980
67	Laura Fowler	$85,933
68	David George Jr.	$85,729
69	Stephanie Townsend	$85,000
70	Kirsten Ruehman	$85,000
71	William Klipple	$84,864
72	Kevin Butts	$84,116
73	Dean Lamb	$84,000
74	Jennafer Tallant	$83,640
74	Christian Hertzberg	$83,640
74	Dawn Burton	$83,640
74	Matthew Clark	$83,640
74	Joyce Lowe	$83,640
79	Tamara Dunn	$82,500
79	Natalie Woods	$82,500
79	Jennifer Imperato	$82,500
82	Daniel Price	$82,200
83	Priscilla Ortuno	$81,600
84	Lisa Selvera	$81,352
85	Cook Wendy Clark	$81,172
86	Jeffrey Templeton	$80,885
87	Carlos Escobedo	$80,840
88	Earl Pearson	$80,820
89	Cynthia Hernandez	$80,700
90	Joseph Greenfield	$80,606
91	Richard Chang	$80,400
92	Tracy Godfrey	$80,296
93	Cruz Trinidad De La	$80,000
94	Theenadayalan Ganesan	$80,000
95	Derrick Miller	$79,998
96	Philip Schneck	$79,966
97	Christy Michalik	$79,496
98	Erica Chao	$79,044
99	Edward Omahony	$78,820
100	Darnell Morgan	$78,000